20 U.S. Code § 6381 - Statement of purpose

It is the purpose of this subpart to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by—

(1)improving the educational opportunities of the Nation’s low-income families by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education into a unified family literacy program, to be referred to as “Even Start”; and

(2)establishing a program that shall—

(A)be implemented through cooperative projects that build on high-quality existing community resources to create a new range of services;

(B)promote the academic achievement of children and adults;

(C)assist children and adults from low-income families to achieve to challenging State content standards and challenging State student achievement standards; and

(D)use instructional programs based on scientifically based reading research and addressing the prevention of reading difficulties for children and adults, to the extent such research is available.